Lee Oswald The Cop Killer

[Denis Pointing]

"Domingo Benevides, a dark, slim auto mechanic, was a witness to the murder of Officer Tippit who testified that he "really got a good view" of the slayer. He was not asked to see the police lineup in which Oswald appeared. Although he later said the killer resembled newspaper pictures of Oswald, he described the man differently: "I remember the back of his head seemed like his hairline sort of went square instead of tapered off...it kind of went down and squared off and made his head look flat in back." Domingo reports that he has been repeatedly threatened by police,and advised not to talk about what he saw."

Domingo Benavides  testified that he "really got a good view" of the slayer, and he said that although the killer resembled newspaper pictures of Oswald,  he didn't believe the man was Lee Oswald, Because,...."I remember the back of his head seemed like his hairline sort of went square instead of tapered off...it kind of went down and squared off and made his head look flat in back."

I wrote: " from the middle of the seconed paragraph on, the article was completely wrong in just about every detail." So why quote the 1st paragraph? Reading problem or just dumb?

[Walt Cakebread]

Oy That could mean so many things if applied to Oswald.

"his head look flat in back"

"his hairline sort of went square"

John Mytton proposed the jacket collar at the nape cropped off from view the hairline to make it appear trimmed.

Collar climbs to nape

Jacket superimposed on Oswald

Yer desperately grasping at flimsy nonsense,  Mr O.....

Or you have trouble understanding what Benevides said....  I believe it's the former, and you know full well that Benavides was NOT describing Lee Oswald's head or hair cut....

[John Iacoletti]

Of course it's pervasive with lazy ass authors like Griffith copying other lazy ass authors mistakes instead of doing a little research. That's exactly how incorrect pervasive crap gets spread all over the internet. But it sounds like that's perfectly acceptable in your book..it's not in mine.

Who said it was "perfectly acceptable"?  I guess you forgot that I'm the one who corrected it here.

What's your point in bringing Bugliosi into it..or you saying if Bugliosi made the same mistake that's OK then?

No, I'm saying exactly what I said:  that it's pervasive.  Bugliosi is just as "lazy ass" as you so eloquently put it.

[John Iacoletti]

It's a start. Plus 'or the man that shot him' ultimately meant Oswald.

Says you.

[John Iacoletti]

A friendly piece of advice Mr Griffith, if you're so averse to having your mistakes pointed out, then you're definitely on the wrong forum. Trying to bully and belittle members so no one else dares do the same wont work here.

Who said he was "averse" to it?  He was provided the correct evidence and he corrected himself.  That's how things should work around here.

[John Iacoletti]

Here is how the paragraph about Benavides in my book Hasty Judgment now reads:

* The witness who should have had the best view of the shooting, Domingo Benavides, at first said he could not identify the killer. This might be because, as even some lone-gunman theorists admit, Benavides told his boss the day after the shooting that he did not get a good look at the gunman. When Benavides testified before the Warren Commission, he would only say that a picture of Oswald "bore a resemblance" to Tippit's killer, and he seemed to identify a dark jacket as the one the assailant had worn, whereas the Commission claimed the killer wore a light gray jacket. About a year after Benavides’s Warren Commission testimony, his brother Edward was shot and killed. Domingo and his father-in-law both believed Edward was shot in mistake for Domingo, even though all the evidence indicated he was shot accidentally during a bar fight. Later, Benavides finally made a positive identification of Oswald as the gunman.

When did Domingo ever make a positive identification of Oswald as the gunman?

[Bill Chapman]

Says you.

The image of Oswald he saw later in the newspaper looked like the shooter. He had plenty of support @Tippit & nearby environs.